Southern Women in the Recent Educational Movement in the South

by Amory Dwight Mayo

Book Overview

Like many other northern clergymen after the Civil War, A. D. Mayo became interested in the role that education could play in rebuilding southern society. From 1880 to 1900 he traveled from Virginia to Texas as an educational missionary advocating the new education theories of the 1840s and 1850s. In time he came to be considered one of the most perceptive observers of southern education during the period from the end of Reconstruction to the rise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807125229
• ISBN13: 9780807125229
• Release Date: March 2001
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.09 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"